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15 June Worked the blue faced booby between carver 
way and D site. Hurt my knee running after the 
damn creatures. 
6 June worked on Hack islet today and with the h soot 
ies in the evening... 
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June 
Today the locals celebrated the Gueens birthday 
And we were invited to attend. Really alot of fun 
but some of the guys got drunk and ndq ned did not 
go so what should have been a feast at Dudleys . j 
turned out to be rather a bust and then the dancing 
by the lacals in the meetinghouse was really great 
with only John and Myself attending. Took some 
pictures with electronic flaeh. 
Spend the afternoon working the BFB adn LF From uh€ 
colony to beyond M site. Alot of work, drove some 
" 120 miles and spent five hours banding about 20 bii 
cs and returning S and measureing and weighing then 
In evening worked on sooties, taking returns. T^er 
taked with Brian Harrington in Johnston Island. 
Dudley says that this is the first time that the 
sooties have nested aloong the north sue of the 
road. 
19 June 
Worked Swimmming iselt for the frigates and the 
spent the rest of the day in the fsoot^ tern, 
colony. In evening raindd vepy hard, hardest since 
i hvfe been here. 
20 June 
Wored the frigates on the islet lagoon peninsula 
nd then the sooties both along earver way and 
the water hole colony. 
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Christmas Island 
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21 
June Worked the colony on the isles lagoon 
peninsula, then the sooties along Che water 
Lorakeet: spent two hours in the evening watching 
the pair in the same place as usual, have severe 
' squeaky sound that i will record. Just seem to oe 
hanging around together, flights in circle arour^ 
where i am as if booking me over than hxx uhen 
hanging-in the coconut branches billing and s u ayi« 
close together. Seemed to not depart at <^rk 
stayed in same tree where they had oeen at 5-0 clo 
Crested Tern: in the'last several days have seen 
more terns on the ridges near the dug out water 
holes near the airport. Many of. these birds seem 
to have darker heads thfi the others and also show 
black in the wings. 
22 June Took the school chcidren into a sooty colony 
and the small frigate colony. Dont think that l 
got anything across to them... _ 
v Walked the plantation area conting nests all after 
noon. In evening woked the sooties colony and 
measured area and cohnted eggs per areas. 
23 June Took the boys school chnildren to colonies 
and still did not get across to them... Worked 
frigates and red foots on northeast colony then 
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sooties 
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24 
Spent the day with dudley 
protestant chcurch. More 
theevening after games of 
afternoon. Very relaxing. 
at a party given by the 
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dancing add singing in 
cards and sports in the 
25 d'une; Worked the southeast point xirh the sooty 
colony and finished up the blue faced boobys. In 
theee hours did not find a banded sooty. Spent 
( the evening in the FMR aooty colony taking returns, 
26 June 
Worked hack islet and then found the lorakeets 
and looked at warblers. 
